The struggles of a low-ranking samurai (Nakamura) coming to terms with the end of the Tokugawa shogunate and the end of Japan's feudal age with the 1868 Restoration.
Kinnosuke Nakamura
Yoshiko Sakuma
Tamao Nakamura
Kinya Kitaoji
Takahiro Tamura
Tatsuya Nakadai
Eitarō Ozawa
Eijirō Tōno